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1. Michael Fortun, “Care of the Data,” a talk given at the symposium
Lively Capital 2: Techno - corporate Critique and Ethnographic Method, University
of California, Irvine, October 23– 24, 2005.
2. Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège
de France, 1981– 82 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 11.
3. Alan Liu, The Laws of Cool (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2004), 331.
4. Ibid.
5. Plato, Republic, trans. Allan Bloom (New York: Basic Books, 1991),
222 (8.544c– d).
6. Ibid., 243 (8.564b– c).
7. Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” (New York: Picador,
2003), 34.
8. Ibid., 39.
9. Ibid., 50.
10. Jean - Luc Nancy, The Birth to Presence (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1993), 36.
11. Ibid., 39.
12. Albert - László Barabási, Linked (Cambridge: Perseus, 2002), 221.
13. Ibid.
14. James Beniger, The Control Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1989), 247.
15. See Philip Agre, “Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy,”
Information Society 10, no. 2 (1994): 101– 27.
16. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 29.
17. The “fork” command is a function that allows a piece of software to
spawn a clone of itself. If called recursively, each clone will also clone itself,
thereby creating a “fork bomb” within the computer’s memory. If left un -
checked, a fork bomb will crash its host computer extremely quickly. The fork
bombs displayed here, however, autoprotect themselves from crashing; they
strangle the machine but do not kill it. Written in Perl, a powerful text - parsing
language created in the late 1980s by Larry Wall, these fork bombs output
generative textures in ASCII text, then quit and return the machine to normal
functionality. By creating a high - stress environment within the computer’s
processor, the artifacts of the machine itself become visible in the output.
These scripts are inspired by the work of Alex McLean, Jaromil, and Jodi.
18. Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended,” 243– 44.
19. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. Joan Stambaugh (Albany:
SUNY Press, 1996), 45.
20. Ibid., 46.
21. Barabási, Linked, 16.